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The History of Jihad shows what establishment foreign policy analysts get wrong – and what Trump gets right

Aug 6, 2018 4:50 pm By Robert Spencer

Tomorrow is the big day: The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS will be available in bookstores, and Amazon and Barnes & Noble will begin shipping the book to those who have already ordered it.

The history of jihad needs to be more widely known. If it were, many of the policy errors of the last twenty years could have been avoided. Some of the things we have done wrong since 9/11, because policymakers did not know the history of jihad or why it mattered:

1. Trying to establish democracy in Afghanistan instead of a making a more narrowly focused move to get bin Laden and destroy al-Qaeda;
2. Removing Saddam Hussein, who was doubtless a brutal tyrant, but who was not a jihadi and was not involved in the 9/11 plot (at high levels, officials of Saudi Arabia and Iran were) — his removal ultimately led to the rise of ISIS;
3. Supporting the “Arab Spring” movements and removing Qaddafi in Libya, giving an opening to jihad groups there;
4. The Iran nuclear deal, enabling Iran to increase its support for jihad terror groups.

The book also shows indirectly, by the sheer force of history, what Trump is doing right:

1. Taking immigration and border security seriously;
2. Pummeling ISIS — beating the enemy, not “winning hearts and minds”;
3. Supporting Israel strongly and unapologetically, without pressing it to make concessions that will not end, but will only embolden, the jihad;
4. Cancelling the Iran deal.

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  1. Terry Gain says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 5:18 pm

    Mr. Spencer

    I certainly hope your book, which I have ordered, is more widely read than McGrory and Bhattia’s Saddam’s Bomb, which explains just how close Saddam ( whose life was a study in revenge and who attempted to have GHWB assassinated) was to having a dirty nuclear bomb in 1991 when the Gulf War set back his nuclear program.

    It convinced me that he would return again to developing nuclear weapons once sanctions ended.

    And there would have been no ISIS if Obama had not withdrawn from Iraq in 2011 and then toppled Gaddafi after he had given up his WMD.

    Keeping troops in Germany for 75 years was unnecessary, but the withdrawal from Iraq was premature.

    • Terry Gain says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 5:27 pm

      I ought to have said I agree with every other thing in Mr. Spencer’s post, including the punctuation.

      • mortimer says

        Aug 6, 2018 at 9:39 pm

        Foreign policy should start with an understanding of the deep structure of a country.

        The threats of Kaddafi and Saddam Hussein were not entirely clear, but they were supporting terrorists.

        The mistake was not in removing them, but in not remaining to set up a stable government and functional institutions.

        I disagree that nation-building is not important. Nation-building means bringing countries into modernity even kicking and screaming. They must modernize or they will sink back into ISLAMIC OBSCURANTISM.

        Muslims are starting to leave Islam in large numbers because of the contradictions between Islam and HUMAN RIGHTS.

        See video: Why I left Islam

      • Saleem Smith says

        Aug 6, 2018 at 10:44 pm

        Hey Terry Gain, interesting to read your comments. What are your views on Islamic Sharia law?
        I sure shouldn’t want to live under such laws.

    • abu taleb says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 10:00 pm

      I always wonder the benefit of keeping troops in Iraq, Afghanistan or other muslim countries. My evil side thinks let the muslims kill each other, let they oppress the other muslims, let the musllims suffer, eventually they will wake up and realize that Islam is causing all their miseries and their false god is nothing than a tool used to intimidate them.

      The best way to fight against Islam in my opinion is simply doing nothing and let the muslims kill each other. Then they are too busy to fight for their own lifes either from being killed by other muslims or trying to survive from hunger so that they don’t have time to do anything else.

      It will be like we are watching people die and do nothing and make us the evil jerks. But aren’t most of us jerks already?

      • mortimer says

        Aug 7, 2018 at 6:11 am

        If we don’t drag them into modernity, they will drag us back to their BRONZE AGE.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2018 at 11:32 pm

          I don’t believe it is incumbent on us to try to civilize these savages–which has never worked, in any case.

          When Islam was isolated we were almost entirely safe from Jihad.

  2. Terry Gain says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 5:42 pm

    Iraq Today?

    https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/

    Getting reliable information is difficult today when our media is owned lock, stock and barrel by the left, but this news seems positive,

    It’s too bad Alex Jones is no longer able to tell us the truth. /s.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 7:52 pm

      Alex Jones is indeed an idiot–for one thing, he is a 9/11 Truther.

      Still, I find his being censored by Twitter and Facebook disturbing. I think that anything save direct exhortations to commit violence should be allowed, and am disturbed by crushing of freedom of speech for anyone.

      I also worry about what it will mean for the rest of us.

      • Saleem Smith says

        Aug 6, 2018 at 10:57 pm

        Hey Graven Image, Yes, Alex Jones seems to be self-promoting fool to a large extent.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2018 at 11:39 pm

          Agreed, Saleem. I still defend his right to speak, though–as well as our right to point out that he is usually an idiot.

      • carpediadem says

        Aug 6, 2018 at 11:24 pm

        I find with most conspiracy sites – the ones I can bear to visit – they generally have some real truth news among the wackadoo garbage, but you have to look carefully.
        One of the best speakers on Agenda 21 for example, Rosa Koire, is, sadly, also a truther.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2018 at 11:42 pm

          Sometimes this is the case.

  3. Keys says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 8:10 pm

    Mine is on the way. Got an email it should arrive tomorrow.
    How will I get any work done ?

    Thank you, RS.

  4. Lydia Church says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 8:20 pm

    Yes, the oligarchs are closing in and freedoms such as the freedom of speech and the press are in jeopardy more by the minute. The agenda is marching in on all fronts, that is all there is to say.
    Like I said so many times before already.

    I will keep an eye on all of this as always and pop in randomly of course.

    Thank you again Robert, and we all love you for what you are doing here!
    ( :

  5. gravenimage says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 8:47 pm

    The History of Jihad shows what establishment foreign policy analysts get wrong – and what Trump gets right
    ………………..

    Good stuff. Looking forward to the book.

  6. Kepha says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    Sadam Hussein paid Palestinian suicide bombers’ families. In Gulf War I, as a US Consular Officer, I was worth $45K dead to the man, and my then seven-year-old son worth $10K. He tried to get nuclear weapons before the Israelis struck his Osirak facility, and used nerve gas on the Kurds. When Osama Bin Laden was holed up in Sudan, his people were in constant contact with Sadam’s embassy in Khartoum. He was a piece of work and the world as a whole is better off without him. The only good he did was go to war with Iran, proving that Israel or no, the Mideast is an unstable and difficult part of the world.

    I fault the O [mal]administration for much; and Shrillary Shroooooo’s role in those policies were a major reason why I held my nose and voted for Trump, who, to me, is an unattractive individual. But let’s not get nostalgic for the good old days of Sodom Hussein.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2018 at 11:43 pm

      Agreed, Kepha.

  7. Kepha says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 9:49 pm

    While I’m here, I’ve just gotten back from a European vacation. It included, in the Cinque Terre, coming close to clobbering an African migrant who got too close to the Mrs. when she had already made it clear she wasn’t interested in buying any of his trinkets. I turned sane, though, and threatened to yell for the police.

    It was sobering to note that in the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, there are anti-terrorism precautions at the Church of San Petronio (built by the guilds of the city, starting back around 1100, and not the Cathedral church). The building contains a fresco depicting Muhammad lying on a rock in Hell as part of a larger depiction of the Last Judgment, so Muslim terrorists are threatening to blow it up. As a consequence, people are no longer allowed to lounge on the steps, and at the entryway, there are both police and armed Italian soldiers bearing automatic weapons. BTW, in the building, there is also the meridian once used, and the chapel in which Charles V and I of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain was crowned.

    I did not see an overwhelming presence of Islamic and African migration while in Italy, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Greece; the places I visited and saw were probably not the sort of places that are attracting people eager to find ways to eke out a living or take advantage of generous welfare payments. But the signs of migration were there; the worst being that the host governments clearly take terrorist threats seriously, even if their media and academia are in denial about it.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Aug 7, 2018 at 11:24 pm

      Kepha…there were recently a handful of posts regarding this fresco. You may want to check this recent JW article:
      https://WWW.JIHADWATCH.ORG/2018/08/AUGUST-4-JIHAD-WATCH-POSTS-ARE-GONE

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2018 at 11:43 pm

      Thanks, Kepha.

  8. Saleem Smith says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    Congrats on the success of the new book Mr.Spencer! Please keep up the good fight, Mate. You are a great inspiration to ex-Muslims such as myself living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy.

    At the heart of Islamic theology is the deeply troublesome aspect of Muhammad the prophet of Islam’s behavior —- when one considers the fact that the supposedly perfect Qur’an teaches (Verse 33, Chapter 21) that Muhammad has left an “excellent example of conduct” for Muslims’ to follow and proclaims that Islam is a perfect religion (Verse 5, Chapter 3) “This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion.”

    Islam is the exact opposite of what it claims to be.

    Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

    “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

    The statement continues,

    Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”

  9. Jack Flag says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 3:54 am

    Perhaps Mr Spencer can send a copy of his new book published today to the judge at Glasgow Sheriff Court who recently fined an elderly pensioner for making “racist and offensive” comments about Islam.

    The pensioner sent a letter to a prominent Muslim MSP describing Islam as “evil” and “demonic”, and allegedly made “derogatory” remarks about Muhammad. The pensioner described the Koran as “a jumbled rambling book of historical inaccuracies”. The MSP, Anas Sarwar, is frequently in the mainstream media bleating about “racism” and “Islamophobia”.

    The Sheriff said: “you know what you did was wrong”.

    Address:

    Sheriff Shona Gilroy
    Sheriff Clerk’s Office
    PO Box 23
    1 Carlton Place
    GLASGOW
    G5 9DA

    Email: glasgow@scotcourts.gov.uk

    Note, in Scotland, a Sheriff is a type of judge. Also note, Scotland’s largest Mosque is situated next to Glasgow Sheriff Court!

  10. Vann Boseman says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 6:09 am

    @Joe I tend to agree with you, even if I think he is a bit of a kook. I don’t pursue listening to him. If he happens to be on the radio in the car, he can keep my interest. He’ll be chatting along saying things that I applaud him for saying, then veer off in some weird directions, or directions that don’t make sense to me that are unbelievable. He seems to have his fingers in everything so I don’t tend to give him too much credit for knowing a lot about any one thing. I have no idea what his ideas on Islam are.He comes across as being so open minded that you could drive a Mack truck between his ears,and is naive to boot. To me, that places him in a position where he MIGHT stumble over something previously uncovered where no one else was looking. He seems to claim credit for doing that.

  11. FYI says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 6:33 am

    If I was that pensioner I would make a complaint to the police and sheriff at the law courts..

    I would ask what they think about the following statement about the Jews.

    “Apes,to be despised and hated”

    Do they believe it constitutes hate speech?{it preaches hatred of Jews!}
    Do they believe it is antisemitic?{It most clearly is!}
    Do they believe the source should be investigated and prosecuted?{if not,why not?}

    If they say No ;then they are clearly biased {or evidently Leftard}

    If they say Yes:what plans do they have to deal with it?

    Then let it be explained to the authorities where this hate speech comes from.

    It’s from islam’s “perfect” book …the koran.

    It’s in the koran surah 2 v 65

    [koran 9:30 manages to insult Jews AND Christians “allah’s curse upon them”
    Highly offensive.It sounds like allah is both antiJewish AND antichristian.
    Who can we complain to?Will the sheriff be investigating?
    Of course not:that would be “racist” and “islamophobic”.It’s so much easier to go after an elderly pensioner…]

  12. Mike says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 8:19 am

    100% behind Trump!

  13. eduardo odraude says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    GOT THE BOOK!

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